page
/peɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms pages paging paged Paige
- noun One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. “The book which he was reading had 213 pages.”
- noun One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- noun (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode. “a page from history”
- noun (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- noun (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- noun (Internet) A web page.
- noun (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- verb (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- verb (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. “The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.”
- verb (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- noun (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- noun (UK) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- noun (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- noun (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- noun A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- noun A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- noun (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
- noun (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- verb (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- verb (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
Synonyms
folio side paginate pageboy Sir Frederick Handley Page Thomas Nelson Page varlet foliate
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.
From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.
From page.
From French Pagé.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- noun A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- verb To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.
- noun One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Etymology [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]
Etymology [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “page”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details